H+ Clinic - Ruwenzori, Uganda

Children in Uganda suffer from malnutrition - thousands are "stunted" - a conditon that leaves them mentally damaged. 

To combat malnutrition, H+ Clinic is trying to raise $400 to provide children at Bwethe Primary School with free lunches.

Please contribute if you can.


Ugandans have an average lifespan of  55.8 years, immensely shorter than the USA lifespan of 79 years . 

Uganda’s infant mortality rate is 44 deaths out of 1,000 births , more than 7X deadlier than the USA infant mortality rate of 6 out of 1,000.


(Bwethe School children waiting for lunch)

To help Ugandans, we’ve set up:

H+ Clinic at Bwethe Primary School, in the Ruwenzori  “Mountains of the Moon.”  This remote community is only accessible via a footpath; a 45-minute hike to the closest road, in Kyarumba .  The 200 children at Bwethe Primary school, and their subsistence farming parents, often get malaria, parasitic worms, and respiratory illnesses.

We named it "H+ Clinic" - for two reasons.

Reason #1: initial funding was from transhumanists, who use "H+" as a symbol for "humanity+". (A significant percentage also arrived from generous progressives.)

Reason #2: We tell the Ugandans H+ means, "HealthyPlus" or "SuperHealthy."



(the clinic building with Bwethe school children)

H+ Health Clinic is inexpensive to set up because the clinic in in a concrete structure that UNICEF abandoned in 2009. (see photo above)


Budget:

$500 - donated by Ted Peters  (for medic’s salary)
               (USA Lutheran Transhumanist)

$300 - donated by Margie Olsen (for medicine)
      (Ex-Peace Corps, Solano County Democratic Club)

$230 - donated by Martin Kleman (for medicine)
     (Swiss cofounder of UK Transhumanists )

$100 - donated by Kathy Wilson (for medicine)
               (Mormon Transhumanist Association)

$100 - donated by Christopher Bradford (for medicine)
               (Mormon Transhumanist Association)

$100 - donated by Ann Philipp (for medicine)
             (Mystery Humor writer, California)

$50 - donated by Wei Cui (for microscope)

$50 - donated by Alyce Bitticks (for microscope)
               (Therapist, Greensboro, North Carolina)

$50 - donated by Hank Pellissier (for clinic sign)

$20 - donated by Ryan McCormick (for microscope)

$25 - donated by David Orban 

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$1,555 TOTAL donated

THANKS!


(Bwethe students in front of a classroom)

The clinic will be adminstered by Brighter Brains Institute, a California charity that's already set up six clinics in the region. Information on those clinics is here, here,  here, here, here and here. 

We hope you’ll help us provide medicine to Ugandan children and their neighbors!


(Ithungu Eliza, the medic we will hire at Bwethe Clinic)

OUR TEAM

Joseph Kasibirehe - (Uganda) Kyarumba Community Leader, manager of Bwethe Health Clinic

Dorothy Deasy - Chief of Humanitarian Activities for the MTA . She has a Masters of Applied Theology and a BS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.  A Christian existentialist, her thesis is on spirituality for a transhuman age.

Hank Pellissier - managing director of Brighter Brains Institute and Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology (California and Connecticut)

Ted Peters is a Lutheran theologian and Professor of Systematic Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, and an author and editor on Christian and Lutheran theology in the modern world. He is also the editor of Dialog, a quarterly scholarly magazine of modern and postmodern theology, and co-editor of Theology and Science. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Christopher Bradford is VP Software Engineering at Ancestry.com. He lives in the Provo, Utah area and he attended Brigham Young University.

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